Uncle Tom vs African-American

African-American vs Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom and African-American both are nouns.

Uncle Tom is not an adjective while African-American is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Uncle Tom	Yes	No	No	No
African-American	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, African-American is a hypernym of Uncle Tom; that is, African-American is a word with a broader meaning than Uncle Tom:

Uncle Tom: (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
African-American: a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today

Other hypernyms of Uncle Tom include Black, Negro, Negroid, Black person, blackamoor.

Uncle Tom (noun)	African-American (noun)
a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe	a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites

Uncle Tom (adjective)	African-American (adjective)
	pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry

Difference between Uncle Tom and African-American

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